MR. BRYN ROBERTS (Carnarvonshire, Eifion)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that letters have been received in this country from Mr. D. J. de Wet, written from the Military Camp, Matjesfontein, showing that he is imprisoned there, and that he states in one, dated the 11th February, 1902, that in another five days it would be five months since he had been away from his family and placed in that camp; whether he is aware that Mr. Du Plessis was deported last summer to Port Alfred; and, seeing that these gentlemen are British subjects and were peace delegates to England from the Graff Reinet Congress, whether he can state the reason of their confinement, and whether they have been tried for any offence.
§ MR. BRODRICKI have made inquiry, but no information has yet reached me.